The Netroots New York conference is coming up this weekend, and I couldn’t be more excited! Likewise, I couldn't encourage you more to register for it.
Things have been developing rapidly on the Netroots Wisconsin to Netroots New York axis especially of late. Indeed, Wisconsin is in ardent solidarity with the effort.
In that vein, I am very happy to report that premier Cheddarsphere blogger Blue Cheddar (@bluecheddar1 on twitter) will be joining us! (ht @NatashaChart).
Blue Cheddar is a progressive blogger who is best known for her avid tweeting about Wisconsin's protests in February and March. She is a lifelong Wisconsinite from a tiny dairy town who now lives in Madison. She's been a freelance writer, a library worker, an AFSCME union member, and a regular attendee at Solidarity Sing Alongs at Wisconsin's Capitol building. She really does like Wisconsin cheese and the Green Bay Packers.
The integration between Blue Cheddar’s avid tweeting from within the Capitol during the occupation last spring and the thorough report backs on her blog helped make things click for me in terms of the true power of an Internet-powered occupation.
And I certainly wasn’t the only one, as seen by how the best strategies stemming from Occupy Wall Street and the tactics of the 99 percent movement follow along the same lines she exhibits, ala:
An activist does something inspirational, and an online organizer records it. It spreads through social media, and a blog post synthesizes the story. Mainstream media catches on eventually as it spreads. In the process, all of this inspires untold numbers of would-be activists to take action themselves along the way.
Regrettably, this fantastic news that Blue Cheddar will be joining us comes alongside recent scheduling conflicts that will be preventing Peter Rickman and Xavier Lopez-Ayala from taking part in this plenary panel. Oh well, so it goes.
But on the flipside, we will be incorporating many more Wisconsin folks into the discussion by adding a second Wisconsin uprising and #Occupy effort event to be held Sunday.
This interactive in-person & online discussion will include all sorts of ways to take part even if you can’t be there in person, and is designed to further catalyze the relationship between #Occupy and the interrelated Wisconsin uprising. It also couldn't be more timely considering the standoff coming at the Wisconsin Capitol the very next day!
So stay tuned for more on that and everything else to boot.